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According to the executive summary of the PISA evaluation (MEC, 2018): "Most of the 15-year-old students in Paraguay are below the minimum competence level in all the areas evaluated in PISA-D". Based on similar data, the need to build a profound transformation of the education system was agreed upon. This article seeks to understand the nature of this transformation. Any change in educational policies should be aimed at improving student learning and to achieve this must, among other things, transform the management and practice of the teacher. This transformation is not achieved only by discovering a new educational model, it must be convincing and explaining teachers its relevance and how to adapt it to each context. Achieving this goes through the implementation of complex and coherent strategies that gradually transform the way educators think and act. Designing and implementing these strategies requires us to have a true and critical knowledge of how the educational system works. This text tries to identify the criteria to take into account to carry out this type of review or evaluation. This evaluation must involve the different levels: pedagogical, organizational and institutional and must be based on an in-depth analysis of the processes operated. The transformation operates on ideas and concepts through activities such as communication, dialogue, catharsis or innovation to reach appropriation or adaptation (Demelenne, 2015). The sequence of these activities reflects the degree of agreement and appropriation of the new proposal. It is a slow and silent work that is not limited to informing, training or delivering teaching guides because it affects the essence of the act of educating. It is a job that should seek to strengthen the teacher's ability to understand the teaching and learning processes to develop the necessary skills to adapt them to the realities of each student. The end of the transformation should allow each teacher to act better within the educational field from an inclusion perspective, which is what is expected from a current educational proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]